Groupthinkers. Credit: Getty.
The statistics behind the rape gang scandal — let’s banish the wholly inadequate word “grooming” — are staggering. For over 25 years, networks of men, predominantly from Pakistani Muslim backgrounds, abused young white girls from Yeovil to London to Glasgow. The victims’ accounts are beyond depravity, unthinkable in a supposedly advanced Western democracy.
That, of course, immediately raises a simple, shocking question: why did British police services turn a blind eye to the gang rape of tens of thousands of young girls? I should have a fair idea. I was a police officer for 25 years, including five as a detective in the Met’s anticorruption command. Working on sensitive investigations into police wrongdoing, I saw first-hand how law enforcement responds to scandals and crises. I’ve watched senior officers, faced with uncomfortable truths, wriggle like greased piglets. I’ve witnessed logic-defying decisions for nakedly political reasons. I am firmly of the view, then, that the whole scandal has unambiguously revealed rank cowardice by constabularies across the UK, where the most senior whistleblower in the entire country was a lowly detective constable.
The answer, in the end, is simple. Racism, for police services from Chester to Penzance, remains the original sin. From the Scarman Report to the Macpherson Inquiry, the police have long served as Britain’s sin-eaters, devouring social problems on our behalf. As former Met Commissioner Sir Robert Mark famously wrote: “The police are the anvil on which society beats out the problems and abrasions of social inequality, racial prejudice, weak laws and ineffective legislation.” That was over 40 years ago, and little has changed since. This institutional reticence over race goes beyond the police themselves: even the Independent Office for Police Conduct’s (IOPC) review of the rape gang scandal tiptoed around the heritage and religion of offenders.
There are two main reasons why race remains such a potent factor in police decision-making, The first is the politicisation of policing, and its role in supporting the state-mandated policy of multiculturalism. Ever since the late Eighties, successive governments have baked antiracism into law. The reasoning here was essentially benign: nobody would deny racism has long dogged British policing, from the bungled investigation into the Stephen Lawrence murder to concerns over stop and search.
Yet given the scale of the rape gang scandal, is it now unreasonable to ask if any babies were chucked out with the bathwater? I think they were. I describe it as “Tsunami Policing” — where the solution to a policing problem is, initially, like a gentle offshore wave. Then, as it rushes towards the landmass of reality, urged on by opinion formers and politicians and grasping police managers, it becomes a monstrosity. This describes the post-Macpherson Met’s obsession with race, whereby Scotland Yard played “trendy vicar” one minute, Torquemada the next. By the mid-2000s, any ambitious officer unwilling to play nice still was unlikely to make National Police Chief’s Council (NPCC) rank, the policing equivalent to army brigadiers and above. This quickly shaped decision-making at senior levels across the country: what happens in London soon spreads to provincial forces.
With so many incentives to toe the line, no wonder more free-thinking coppers stayed away, with the remainder grimly susceptible to groupthink. We used to call it “having the CD Rom inserted” — whereby a reasonably competent copper would morph into a pound-shop commissar to achieve the next rank. The next time you watch a press conference with a senior officer, play “bullshit bingo” with the language they use, usually involving words like community, proportionality and diversity. Meanwhile, away from the TV cameras, thousands of young girls were raped, abused and treated like chattel in their own hometowns.
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SubscribeMuch of the appeal of multiculturalism lies in intellectual laziness: a thoughtful recognition that not all cultures are equally worthy would require one to make informed judgments between them, and that would require learning deeply about them, which, let’s face it, is a lot of work. Far easier to just adopt either a reflexive xenophobia or a mindless universal tolerance. Indeed, the best is both: tolerance for the stranger combined with repugnance for one’s own, for then one has the pleasure of appearing cosmopolitan to the world and of denigrating those who are not as enlightened as oneself. Thus, open-mindedness and closed-mindedness blend into a delicious whole.
Multiculturalism is also, of course, cowardice, since in learning about other cultures one might learn things that are uncomfortable, and would demand some kind of action. Better just to remain ignorant, smug in the lack of knowledge about other cultures that transmutes into multicultural bliss.
I hope some MP quotes this in the HoC so it gets entered into Hansard.
Well said. You forgot to mention the parallel force of “colonialism was pure evil” which when put together alongside multiculturalism’s mantras creates an unstoppable force based on let’s face it: LIES!
We have had inquiry after inquiry into these scandals but they never get to the real reason why they happen.
If you want the truth read the best seller The Brotherhood by Stephen Knight.
If it was “pure evil” when the British colonised India and Pakistan, then it is equally evil when Asians colonise Britain.
Really, there are good and bad results fron colonialism.
As a white South African who voted to end apartheid, born in the colonies and raised by a Tanzanian nanny who taught me Swahili , I can be both the epitome of evil and holier than thou at the same time.
Its all nonsense
No deflection please. This is about third world barbarian half breeds being allowed to live with us and what a fundamental mistake it was. They have never added anything to our society.
Hear, hear!
The same principle can be applied to just about any topic these days. It takes effort and work to acquire knowledge, which are easily dismissed in our soundbite and clickbait worlds. Critical thinking skills are almost relics of a bygone era. Ironically, we have become a much more credentialed society as well, which brings into question what exactly is behind the credentialing bureaucracy that grants such status to people who wind up know nothing about what is actually going on?
I’m reminded of the Spanish conquestadores, far from angels themselves, being horror-struck when they arrived to plunder the Aztec empire and came upon annual religious rites where 9000 or more victims at a time were sacrificed to some savage god by having their beating hearts dug out of their chests. The few handfuls of these invaders made short work of that other culture.
Why are you so reminded? I fail to see the slightest connection.What are you even talking about?
Not all cultures are equal. Canaanites worshipped Moloch which required child sacrifice . The Israelites stopped the worship of Moloch. Cannibalism has been common in the Congo and South Pacific and PNG , very rare today.Huti still practised in parts of Africa and the parts taken from live people, especially albinos are considered very powerful. The torso called Adam by Police in the R Thames was considered a victim of huti.
Persecution of people with albinism – Wikipedia
The pygmies in the Congo were killed and eaten during conflicts in the last few decades.
Human sacrifice was common in Meso America and was stopped by the Spanish .
Human sacrifice in Aztec culture – Wikipedia
The remaining areas of cannibalism, human sacrifice,slavery and piracy were largely wiped post 1807, mostly by the British.
Slavery was only stopped in Mauritania a few decades ago.
The main issue issue is since the end of Empire and many of British buisness interests very few middle class people have experienced anything nasty. How many Britons lived and worked in the Congo during the recent war?
He means that the barbarians we let come and live with us were always like this. Pakistan is full of child sexual abuse today. What on earth were we thinking?
I tend not to look at the vote count but is 549 a lot for Unherd? you often see 1000s in the Mail etc and 4-500 would be a high count for the Grauniad. (More echo chamber than vote i guess) My memory tells me Unherd votes seldom reach 3 figures – is that right or yet more proof i am having more senior moments?
It’s very much a lot.
Numbers for this piece are big all around, though.
Mind you, comment numbers don’t always correspond to article interest.
The vote counts on here are meaningless. I just tried to vote for a post but was told I had already done so despite there being no votes registered under the post in question.
“Better just to remain ignorant, smug in the lack of knowledge about other cultures that transmutes into multicultural bliss.”
And, of course, all the fringe benefits that come with this self-serving Three Monkeys approach. Which are:
* Selection for promotion
* Not having one’s head severed from ones body
* No nasty struggle-sessions with middle-aged bearded ‘community leaders’ whose religion allows them to subjugate, beat and barter their wives and daughters
* Free shirts, suits and +0.00 strength ‘Reputation’ line of spectacles.
* Get to keep pension.
Thanks RWH, so many good comments on this dereliction of duty, example of classism and abandonment of the most vulnerable.
Have you noticed how comment upvotes on Unherd can suddenly be wiped? Yesterday your comment had hundreds of votes today 0. Same for all comments below. I’ve noticed this happen before under other articles on Unherd. I can’t help but wonder why it happens.
Every single officer knows that every single word of this excellent article is true. Having spent 25 years on the front line, I eventually played the game for a better pension. I had to pander to the woke mind virus by inventing “examples of when you have proactively furthered the cause of diversity in the Metropolitan Police”. I eventually admitted in that particular failed interview that I probably hadn’t, only to discover later that the successful candidate had arranged for two disabled parking spaces to be painted in the basement of Scotland Yard. It was a joke because nobody could use them as there was only a concrete staircase to exit the basement. But that particular waste of space, time & money got them a job. I learned. I, along with every other officer, learned and ‘playing the game’ I laid claim to the arrow pointing Mecca-wise on the ceiling of the cells. If every officer taking credit for that waste of paint had all been telling the truth the cells would have looked like Little Bighorn. I could, but won’t, go on.
I retired seven years ago and had the pleasure of working with the author. I cannot say how pleased I am that the insight and analysis he brought to bear while serving has been brought to a much wider audience. I commend his Substack; he needs listening to. Or, as he would put it as a wordsmith, he is someone to whom we should listen.
Sounds like a ‘crisis of leadership’ with a side order of immorality?
I am sure that there are many people like you in the public services who are coerced into compliance with these awful Woke policies and practices for fear of losing your jobs and pensions. Even when you have secured your pension in retirement, it remains vulnerable to punitive measures by your Woke former employers and fund managers. That is because all public sector pensions have ‘small print’ clauses that provide for the cancellation of your pension if you are deemed to have brought the pension fund and/or your former employer into disrepute (e.g. by joining a Right-wing political party, being deemed a racist, or whatever). Most people with public sector pensions do not appreciate how potentially vulnerable they are in this respect. Be careful what you say/write/publish in private or public in case you are reported and find yourself sanctioned and without retirement pension income.
It does make one understand why the abuses under National Socialist Germany and the Soviet system were able to obtain widespread public support or compliance.
I can only offer my perspective as an American. Thirty plus years ago I changed career into law. Even at that time, the progressive Left were firmly entrenched in legal education and the bar. The people educated in progressivism all those years ago are now senior figures in the legal establishment. That is true in the US and, I suspect, true in the UK.
For that reason, I don’t see a quick or easy way out of the challenges outlined in this article. The latest intake of UK “coppers” might, indeed, grow a pair, but the legal establishment will resist them, and since the progressive judges are higher in the legal pecking order than the police…
But change is clearly needed, and I hope the latest generation of police will push back against the nonsense described in this article. And I’m more sympathetic to the activism of Elon Musk in UK affairs: at first glance, this appears to be none of his business; upon second glance it will probably take a multi billionaire to be the battering ram that allows common sense to reassert itself.
The problem is leftists can no longer win a fair vote – so their options are cheat – eg Biden in 2020. Lie – like Starmer in 2024 (campaigned on Blair lite economics and then de-cloaked as Stalin once voted in 20% of the electorate) and finally ban elections – looks like Sturmer is actually considering this. Musk could raise a strike fund for the farmers – if they cut enough domestic food production to spike prices ( and imports) then block a few container ports this could work. Grim i know but a criminal state and their rape gangs, narcos and extremist migrants are a law and order problem, not an electoral one. In the absence of police this means the armed services augmented locally with a civil guard – civil defence like force. It took 3 generations to remove most of the poison from Spanish politics last century – ( and another generation for the Euskadis to settle down) That may be the minimum time to make sure the Wedgewood Benns, Millibands, Camerons & Johnsons etc etc are diminished to the point where they can no longer return to damage Great Britain for their personal gain or gratification.
starma then de cloaked as starlin. I love it !
“A flexible, Common Law system was replaced by all-knowing, all-seeing diktat, designed…..”. the great advantage of the Common Law is that it was law from the “bottom up”, not “top down”. We do not need change but a return to that system of law, which was the bedrock of what was once a civilised society.
Maybe – there’s sense to Roman Law (eg everyone , princes and paupers are under one law) and also problems (the inquisitorial system is fact based and does not make much allowance for individual cases) Common Law, Kanun Lec, Sharia etc positives: (based on agreed social rules – Kanun and Common law from tribal/clan customs, Sharia from religious belief, unlike the roman version cases are seen as individual and facts need not be considred if inconvenient, very handy if you have a randy prince embarrassing your state or an annoying minority you may want to repress or even remove)
Coppers ? They went about 35 years ago.their called stasi or political police
Thanks J Bryant, so many good comments generally and in particular your solution to these atrocities.
The failure to address the UK rape gang scandal is not just a failure of law enforcement but an indictment of a society willing to ignore its most vulnerable for fear of confronting uncomfortable truths. The systemic abuse of tens of thousands of young girls over decades, compounded by police inaction, highlights the perils of prioritising political correctness and public order over justice and moral duty. When institutions bend to avoid cultural and racial sensitivities, they forfeit their core mission: to protect and serve without fear or favour.
The more significant issue is the failure to anticipate and address the complexities of mass immigration and cultural differences. Integration cannot be achieved through platitudes or avoidance; cultural clashes require direct, honest confrontation and accountability. The notion that deeply ingrained behaviours in specific communities could be resolved with superficial gestures has proven disastrously naive. This scandal demands more than inquiries—it requires transformative courage within policing and political structures, a willingness to prioritise justice, and an unflinching commitment to safeguarding the rights and lives of all citizens, especially the most vulnerable.
The bottom line here is as follows:
If, as is becoming increasingly clear, politicians and bureaucrats explicitly instructed police forces and prosecutors not to enforce the law, then those politicians and bureaucrats must be charged and imprisoned – even if they are in the House of Lords or Downing Street.
We cannot claim to live in a democracy otherwise.
Yes. And why is Tommy Robinson in prison? Listen to Starmer yesterday. He talked nonsense. Why is this not called out?
Free Tommy Robinson *now*.
Though a bit clownish i do admire the guy’s nerve – but if he is going to connect to people other than men of fighting age (or attitude) he will need to free himself from his own mind!
Tommy Robinson is a bit of a clown IMO. He of all people should’ve stayed squeaky clean – no interference in the UK’s contemptable fake “judicial” system, no incitement on social media and a lot more distance from the “far right” football firms would help. Nigel Farage succeeds with a similar set of views to TRs so it can be done. Perhaps Mr Yaxley Lennon will evolve into an urbane charming communicator, like Tom Robinson the bi-sexual musician. At the mo’ he more resembles the hapless Tom Robinson from To Kill a Mockingbird: Lost hope in the fairness of the system and tried to take matters into his own hands.
Just editing as another parrallel struck me –
Truman Capote’sHarper Lee’s character was judged on the color of his skin not the content of his character – so same as the present day Mr RobinsonListen to the two interviews with Jordan Peterson. They are on YouTube, spotify.
Then comment.
I donot know much about him, but would certainly think that only Tommy Robinson had the guts to highlight the violence and terror perpetrated by Islamists in Bangladesh against Hindus and other minorities. Racist he ain’t. He’s clear and brutally frank, and most other politicians in the West other than than Trump have not done what he has- highlighted an ongoing massacre and intimidation redolent of Germany in the 1930s..
I’ve said it on a few other platforms. 1) Every person is a package deal; you take all him or none of him. 2) If every town has 10 Tommy Robinsons, this evil would have been ‘solved’ years ago. The people, the average citizen, dare I say the ‘average Christian’ needs to take a stand and be counted. We all may hang with Tommy Robinson, but most assuredly we will hang if we only stand [or sit] alone. [Or our daughters will be raped alone.].
I agree but think TR and EDL etc would’ve had more reach if they’d gone for hearts and minds a bit more. 10 TRs per grooming town wouldn’t help – you would need to match the combined firepower of the police and the narcos that run the chicken shops/barbers etc. So i guess 1000 per town at least with basic army training and arms for the ranks and good counter insurgency and counter surveillance skills at officer level. Plus a logistical support system for ordnance and messing. Not as fanciful as it seems – Once homegrown resistance gets traction many tyrants discover their praetorian guard wasn’t so loyal and has handed the supply chain to the rebels. USA in 1770s, Russia in 1917 and Vietnam in ath mid 70s are good examples.
Let’s remember that the EDL no longer exist, and TR left them years ago. Shall we start digging up his past tweets next? The man is in a high security prison, serving 18 months for a civil offence. He is in solitary for 9 months, apparently for his protection, and the government have just signed off to keep him there for the full 9. He should be in an open prison. He showed the film knowing there would be consequences, but he is being persecuted exactly because he is seen as politically dangerous.
As they say, and I’ll paraphrase here, “well behaved, credentialed gentlemen rarely change history.”
True but ragged arsed armies only prevail when existing regimes collapse under apathy ( F Batista 1959) or overreach ( NSDAP 1944-45). The Brits will need to be well behaved to bring down their opponents and credentials can help win heats and minds. By the standards of their time both Cromwell and Wm III were well behaved, credentialed etc etc
Also occurs to me a lot of the British army is now drawn from the Pacific and Caribbean islands and mainland Africa. They may find it quite easy to fire on british men of fighting age but not so sure they’d feel the same if ordered to shoot women, children or the elderly. This shows the problem with labors’ belief in race/skin tone as character. Sure there are bad guys in the above areas, but there are also the 99% who are good people. Leftists take the cathloic belief in original sin and paint it in huge letters like the graffiti of the drug gangs they have symbiosis with. My experience of life over 65 years make me contend their view of humanity is very, very wrong
This was the intention
I acknowledge your use of quotation marks and also the fact that anyone who disagrees with the regime shibboleths preached by the BBC and the Grauniad is dismissed as far right these days (though more and more people are thankfully becoming immune to this usually baseless accusation).
Nevertheless, for the sake of clarity I think it’s important to point out that Tommy Robinson wasn’t part of a right-wing or racist football firm. Luton Town’s firm, like many if not most in England for a couple of decades now, was multiracial. And the EDL, which to some extent – though by no means exclusively – recruited from the ranks of football lads and lasses from across the country, included Jewish, Hindu, Sikh and gay & lesbian (not LGBTQ…..) divisions. Yes, there were to some degree successful attempts by the genuine far-right to infiltrate and undermine the EDL, and this sort of factionalism ultimately led to its demise. But if you looked at its stated aims at the time, there was nothing racist or far-right about the organisation. It oppposed political Islam/Islamism. Fair enough I say.
He’s in prison because he repeatedly broke the law. He’s no hero -don’t make that mistake.
He broke the law on a point of principle. Contempt of court is a civil offence and it is absolutely exceptional for offenders to be held in solitary confinement in a high-security jail for offences of this nature. Furthermore, the contempt of court case was brought by the attorney general, who is of course a political appointee.
If you haven’t done so yet, I’d suggest giving his film Silenced a watch. 153 million others have already done so.
His film is a work of fiction. I’m amazed how easily people are duped.
Proof? … don’t have any? Would you be okay with a full independent inquiry that had the power to cancel the NDAs the teachers were made sign?
Belt up!
The law is very clearly corrupt and complicit in this very scandal. The deep state covered the Syrian kids story up and bribed the teachers involved then got them to sign NDAs … even the school was closed down to stop it in its tracks. The council leader who organised all of this is a Muslim. Hardly the actions of an innocent organisation!
TR …. Hero of the nation. Don’t be fooled by the state controlled MsM.
Yesterday, the British Prime Minister, Sir(!) Keir Starmer, stated that people calling for a general public enquiry into this endemic national atrocity were jumping onto a bandwagon of the Far Right. This from our national leader! What a massive insult to every girl, underage or otherwise (some of whom have testified being raped over 1000 times!), who have been sexually tortured and brutalised by these Muslim rape gangs, some of whom themselves are calling for this. Starmer appears to be more focused on defeating the Far Right bogeyman than decisively dealing with these disgusting criminals.
I despair that such people end up as our political leaders.
To be fair for every elector that backed schturmer there were 4 that didn’t. That doesn’t make him a leader IMO – he is a ruler but without the consent of the ruled. TBH pretty sure John Major had a similar situation – on;ly 20% of electors showed confidence in him and he claimed this as a mandate
Had a quick search and “In the 1992 United Kingdom general election, the Conservative Party received 41.9% of the total votes cast. The total electorate was 43,249,721, and the number of people who voted was 33,013,839. Therefore, the Conservative Party’s vote share of the electorate was approximately 14,093,007 votes out of 43,249,721 eligible voters.” which is about 32.5% of electorate. Still not great but a lot better than Starmer’s.
Thx for the info – be interesting to se the figs 1944 or even 1906 to present – in my lifetime labour’s best shot was 97 with BLiar
Turnouts have been declining for decades – immediately after WW2 turnouts were over 80%.
It now turns out that many of the CPS files relating to his period as DPP have mysteriously disappeared.
What’s your source for claiming that please?
Is our Dear Leader not perhaps “far wrong”?
And that will only happen when the common bloke rises up and forces the issue, just like BLM did in the U.S. Apparently, rioting is the only action that gets attention.
Society, yes…but the Labour Party most of all, because they ran the towns and citys where it happened, had political oversight of the police forces and were elected (in part) by loyal social, community and DEI footsoldiers who worked for them and often ran the local branch of the Party. It was the Labour Establishment who stood behind it all…
Spot on. Do not forget most large criminal gangs come from areas run by Labour- Richardson- SE London, Krays E London, Hunt E London and Curtis Warren Liverpool. So no Labour Party member had friends and/or family connected to criminal gangs and knew nothing about their activity?
…certain proof of the insiduous nature of connexions between Labour and the communities where these events happened…often channelled through “respected community leaders” (who were, coincidentally often Imams at the largest local mosque!) was provided by events at Tower Hamlets…
…where Labour knew nothing about voter fraud perpetrated by that mechanism until Lutfur Rahman used it against them to maintain his position against their opposition…
…when, by an amazing feat of deduction…they worked out exactly how it was done and passed evidence on to the Police in about a week…having previously known nothing about it..?
Totally agree with you on this. However, I fear that the people we are trying to pursue and prosecute will be put into the ‘vulnerable’ category and thereby escape justice again.
Well said. More common sense and moral courage is required.
Excellent comment. You’re absolutely right about the need for honest confrontation and accountability.
It is more simple and fundamental. Our society in the latter half of the 20th century adopted the notion that racism was near as dammit the ultimate sin. The default behaviour has been to keep far away as possible from anything likely to spread any contamination on yourself that might transfer some taint or stain of the nasty thing. In polite circles it is expected of one to periodically denounce racism and point to some guilty soul. It has been a national obsession, not just confined to this country. Along with this upon any suggestion that a particular ethnic type/group has developed a problem behaviour the reflex response has become to call that observation racist. The media and virtually all our public institutions have adopted this in unison as a badge of honour. For any individual or organisation faced with such accusation it is pretty much the ultimate disgrace whether valid or not, few bother to consider evidence. Most of us now carry with us an instinct to avoid doing or saying anything which might be construed racist and some feel the need to build a shield by finding opportunity to declare their purity, seeking examples to denounce. This is why there has for so long been a reluctance to address the Grooming Gang phenomenon. It is easy to see it as huge minefield full of open and hidden tripwires ready to blow up and bring an avalanche of racist accusation with one false move and whole media industry waiting to pounce and bury another vile racist up to their neck. Easy to criticise Robinson for his false moves. The problem is all the clever ones who know better the correct way to navigate the minefield lack the inclination or the courage to go there. It is by no means the only evil endemic to our cities across the country now because the police are afraid to tackle it. This has become part of the British way of life. Find a way to neutralise the term racist and a whole array of problems will become solveable pretty quickly.
A persuasive analysis from a practical old style copper. I do wonder if the promotion of University graduates in the police force produced a culture where ill educated white girls in care were othered and regarded as lesser, and not worth police time in the same way that young ill educated black boys were sometimes regarded in pre-Stephen Lawrence times. A replacement of one cultural prejudice by another on top of the issues highlighted by the author. A “see no evil; hear no evil” approach enforced by ideological anti-racism towards “minorities” needs to be reformed to eliminate current two tier policing. Without changes in the law this will not occur. I fear sensible as Kemi is she may be too cautious and have too many leftists in her party for the reforms needed.
It’s too late for the Tories, as they have destroyed their reputation through their ineptitude and infighting (again; no lessons learned from mid-90s). The last election didn’t choose Labour – it rejected the Conservatives. All the best of them can do now is move to Reform and bolster that party’s credentials.
It’s easy to look at this as just a political football. A very convenient attack line against a former head of the CPS. But it also highlights the complete stasis in British politics.
The Conservatives did nothing about this during their 14 years in power. Why? For fear of being branded racist would seem the obvious conclusion.
Labour now won’t touch this because they fear upsetting a significant part of their vote.
As a result we end up here. Neither party serving the interests of the British people. It’s a sh*tshow. A thoroughly disgusting one at that.
All supported by the media including this despicable rag
Despicable rag?!
Really?!
I’m sorry, but your comment begs the obvious question, why are you even reading this publication?
Unherd is not perfect. But it’s a darn sight better than most.
So, “relatively less despicable rag.”
A pertinent response might give you some credibility.
Mark, This Littlewood character has never, so far as I am aware, made a pertinent response to anything on any thread or article here. After he has accused UnHerd of being a left-wing rag/conspiracy against English people, he goes on to express his admiration for Tommy Robinson.
He feels Reform is now suspect because it is not a fan of TR and he has even called it soft-left! I think “don’t feed the troll” must be the watchword here… 😀
I’m not even going to try to guess which side of the political spectrum he comes from. All I’m saying is that ranting and raving adds nothing to the debate.
My local FB page which carries info about Council activities and lost cats, always has a good chunk of rants about how wicked the Council is for trying to stop us doing Bad Things like driving too fast and dumping mattresses. Is every open website the same?
You’re like a broken record. Please go and complain on the Guardian comments and give us all a rest from your constant whining about Unherd.
That’s significantly untrue. Theresa May launched the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in 2014, and the prosecutions really got going in 2015.
Where they went wrong, in my opinion deliberately, was in framing the problem as one of generic child abuse, thus including the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church, and Internet grooming, all in the same inquiry.
Yvette Cooper is making precisely that argument now. It is the argument that this has nothing to do with the ethnicity or religion of the perpetrators, and is only about the toxic patriarchy. It is a blatant, deliberate, misdirection, and it comes from the top level of government.
Okay. So the Conservatives did something. Which you’re right isn’t nothing.
But to then not implement any meaningful change in policing as a result seems like neglect. Or cowardice. Or stupidity. Or all three.
It still amounts to nothing at street level. The abuse goes on. Nothing has actually changed.
And nothing will change unless our political class find their spines and tackle this issue.
I find myself wondering what on earth the Tories thought they were supposed to be doing over the last 14 years. The appearance is of preserving the Blair legacy (hence the UniParty accusations), as opposed to extending it, as 2TS seems determined to do, changing the rules until it’s impossible to remove him from power. Lula has been doing precisely that in Brazil, using the Supreme Court to openly persecute opponents and even anyone who questions them.
Of course the other purpose is lining their own pockets (another Uniparty characteristic), which again is far more advanced in Brazil, where the entire public sector is being ransacked once more (see old PT), while the private sector is forced into bribery in order to stay in business.
Yes, obviously. It is cowardice. Racism, or the fear of the perception of, is a live rail for Conservative politicians. So, in my opinion, they colluded in wrapping this up into a more generic and diffuse problem. As I understand it, this is actually the official line from the Home Office and from Starmer right now.
It is worse than doing nothing because others who might have actually had the inclination and drive to pursue it properly would have thought there was no need because it was all in hand. Maybe that was the intention, a way for a few hiding skeletons to say, dont worry we are on top of it.
I think the only difference fact wise is that clerical rapists use the church to hide and labor’s rape gangs have a racially aggravated element. (this overwhelmingly happens in labor controlled councils – i don’t beleice this is a coincidence ) Considering Lex Talionis would mean life with no chance of parole for both types of rapist the difference is purely observational. Obviously labor will support rape gangs that support them through contributions, baridari votes etc – but also remember the Andrew Nether incident. Basically labor are saying – “we are labor, we are here, we’ll s**g your women and drink your faludah*” And they slag off Tommy Robinson??
*Obvs labor don’t drink alcohol cos they’re good Moslems don’tcha know.
Framing it as generic child abuse neatly sidesteps the racial/Muslim dimension at the heart of this national atrocity. That’s why Ms May did the neat fandango to skip over the reality; and why Ms Cooper is similarly dancing around the issue using the same approach.
Our politicians are morally bankrupt and devoid of courage and leadership.
“Where they went wrong, in my opinion deliberately, was in framing the problem as one of generic child abuse …”
Very deliberately. To criticise would be racism.
That is how it has worked, while no-one uninvolved was interested.
Any organisation that gets too big is open to abuse. FIFA, the IOC, the EU, the National Health Service, The Post Office, The Civil Service. Covering up is rife in any organisation.
The perfect model for how we learn from our mistakes is the Air Traffic Investigators who adopt a ‘no blame’ culture. We admit to our mistakes and learn from them so it really ‘doesn’t happen again’. No sackings; just don’t f**k up again!
If you scroll down to the analysis of the Jay Report recommendations in this link (about para 9)
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/child-sexual-abuse-inquiry-professor-jay-recommendations-180214699.html?
you will see that the Sunak cabinet was in the process of implementing 1 & 2, and was considering the best way to achieve 3. I have (yesterday) heard reports from a usually reliable source that several SPADS in that cabinet have complained about enquiries re progress of Item 2 were blocked/ignored by Civil Service.
Yes, this is true.
And credit where it’s due, the most effective politician on this issue in nearly 20 years is actually… Suella Braverman.
Suella took up the post of HomeSec around the time of the long awaited (it took 8 years) IICSA Report, aka. the “Jay Report”. She recognised that the report had been a bit of whitewash, trying desperately not to address topics like race and religion, and trying to soft-focus the grooming gangs issue by burying it under oceans of report content about child sex abuse in general.
In that respect it wasn’t terribly helpful. She is, as far as I’m aware, the first HomeSec to conduct a series of face to face meetings with actual victims, and whistleblowers, to hear their thoughts on the Report and the action points. After doing so she pressed Sunak to force thru recording of ethnicity by police, and she set up a dedicated taskforce for grooming gangs, to hunt and prosecute offenders of this *specific* crime (not just generally look at the topic of child abuse).
The Grooming Gangs Taskforce made over 550 arrests in the first year, under her close supervision. It was a team of many talents, but nested under the National Crime Agency (NCA), which is crucial — it needed to have the power to action things, as well as to direct forces to do this or that, in a manner they could not refuse.
Then Suella was pushed out, ironically for offending Muslims …but in a different area. Her comments regarding the anti-Jewish marches in London were the catalyst, and the cowardly Tories squeezed her out. Sunak was not really bought into the grooming gangs work, so after she left things slowed way down again, back to business as usual. That is the thing with bureaucracies / civil service — you can get them to be effective if you structure things properly, but you still have to stand over them and breathe menacingly down their necks until they follow all the way through. Otherwise, they’ll get lazy when given the chance.
In any case, credit where it’s due, Braverman did actually try. And she probably worked out the right answer too. Instead of more bureaucracy (which the Report mainly recommends; more paperwork, a new department for children’s safety etc), it would be better to actually just establish a tooled up, fully empowered NCA taskforce and go and start kicking doors down. I doubt Labour will do anything positive on this, as the whole matter is bonafide political napalm for their party (and Starmer personally), but I do hope I’m wrong.
Excellent, constructive, comment
You are right in stating that the useless socialist Tories did nothing effective to address this mass atrocity during their 14 years in government – as Labour Prime Minister Starmer reminds us constantly.
But where was Her Majesty’s Opposition during that 14 years? Why did they not howl from the opposition benches and illuminate this fully in Parliament, which they could have done? Well … just consider who led them latterly …
Perfectly stated. Fifty or sixty years ago when the UK decided to adopt “multiculturalism” as its state religion, the die was cast. Now politicians have ejected or imprisoned anyone who objects to this practice “to encourage the others” as the saying goes.
Unless this latest disaster wakes people up and makes them willing to literally fight for their country, I’m afraid the UK’s fate will be to pass into history as yet another conquered state, the latest acquisition of Muslim empire.
It is very encouraging that so many non-white Brits are coming out very strongly against this serious threat against the interests of the UK population in general. It is a clear demonstration that this is not an ethnic/race issue (or perhaps even a religious one, although Jihad seems to be core to Islam), but a cultural one. The country is coming together to defend its shared cultural values and categorically reject any that are antagonistic and incompatible.
It’s not just the police though, is it? The social workers are sending victims on holiday with their abusers. The care homes are allowing abusers to pick up the victims. The local authority safeguarding teams are taking into care girls whose fathers defend their daughters.
The CPS is declining to prosecute cases. The judges are handing down soft sentences to those guilty of the most heinous crimes imaginable. The Home Office is producing guidance saying children can consent.
Literally hundreds of thousands of state employees are guilty of not just of turning a blind eye but of facilitating these crimes. It is inconceivable that so many people and so many organisations can be reformed. Britain may well be beyond redemption.
Literally hundreds of thousands of state employees are guilty of not just of turning a blind eye but of facilitating these crimes.
That’s why the people at the top who explicitly mandated police and prosecutors to back pedal on this issue must be held to account and punished. A fish rots from the head, as they say.
“The care homes are allowing abusers to pick up the victims.”
A) did the care homes know that they were being picked up by abusers?
B) were the victims on DoLs orders?
C) are you aware of how limited care workers are in stopping young people from doing what they want to do?
D) care workers are at the bottom of the pile when it comes to pay and authority. Also not sure how you think we can stop a car pulling up down the road?
it’s really hard to have young people put on DoLs and there are not enough homes in the UK that can enforce them. Most care homes that are Ofsted registered have thumb locks on all doors so that you cannot lock children in. You can follow them, you can report concerns to the police and social services but you cannot lock them in for their own safety without a court order. Grooming is an appropriate word because many of these girls think they’re in love and will do anything to be with their groomer. Some think they’re exploiting the groomer and do not like our interference.
Social services act by first sending the victim out of area, sometimes they have their phones confiscated. If they keep running away to return to their groomer, then the courts will put them under a DoLs order and if there is a place available, they may be sent to a secure unit. This is what happens and I have seen it happen a number of times. It’s not just Pakistani gangs now, it’s also Albanian traffickers, they use snap chat to groom girls over the internet.
I refer to several statutory body case reviews, i.e., the findings of public bodies. For example, the Oxfordshire Safeguarding Children Board Serious Case Review into Child Sexual Exploitation in Oxfordshire: from the experiences of Children A, B, C, D, E, and F.
The report reveals the state’s supposed carers actively helped the abuse. In the words of the report, written by a statutory body: “On behalf of the OSCB I would like to apologise for how long it took organisations in Oxfordshire to see what was happening to these children.” Mealy mouthed words when you read on and learn they admit they did see but did nothing using as a defence “The issue of child sexual exploitation and street grooming was not understood” and “What happened to the girls was not recognised as being as terrible as it was because of a view that saw them as consenting”. They were CHILDREN.
And everyone involved in those cases remains in the employment of the state. Unpunished.
Admittedly I don’t work in a state run home, and I agree that under 16 cannot legally consent. What you are not appreciating is that these girls do not care about the law because they think they can consent. Without a DoLs order, we cannot make them stay in the home. All we can do is advise and report when necessary and hope that the social worker will apply for DoLs when the dangers are clear.
Many, of these girls are vulnerable because they have been emotionally neglected growing up, they are desperate for positive attention. These girls are vulnerable to grooming because of a deficit in their lives and these men exploit it. Unfortunately, our hands are very much tied in stopping it, not without DoLs orders and more staff. We can only work within the law.
Let’s also not forget that DoLs order are also being highly criticised because they do exactly what they’re supposed to, Deprive liberty. There are many articles in the news complaining about young peoples freedoms being curtailed and the trauma it leads to. We can’t do right from wrong!
We cannot make young people do what they do not want to. We cannot force them to engage in education, we cannot force them to engage with professionals such as CAMHS, we cannot make them get the help they need and we cannot stop them from doing drugs, drinking alcohol or sleeping with who they want to. Not without a DoLs order, which is court sanctioned!
All these things are easier to do when the children are young and have come from a stable loving home. By the time they come to residential care, much of the damage is done, many of them have been raising themselves and it’s extremely challenging to get them to listen to us and adhere to the boundaries that we put in place.
In an ideal world, all parents are good parents and children don’t come to harm, but its not an ideal world and scapegoating residential care workers as a whole for the slack practise of some is not going to help young people get the support they desperately need, even if they don’t know that they need it. The whole social care system is in crisis, largely because it’s a very difficult job and is not well paid and massively understaffed. I advise you to step into our shoes before you judge. Please!
Victim blaming is not a good look.
I think you’ll find that I have repeatedly pointed out that these girls are groomed, these men pull them in by filling the hole in their life. Many have been let down by their parents who they love and their vulnerability has been exploited. However, as much as we adults understand it, many young girls do not see it and they will do anything to return to their abusers because they believe they are in love and nothing we say will convince them otherwise. I am not victim blaming, I am pointing out the reality of this situation and if you were to work in this field, you would see it. You have no idea how little we can actually do by law.
100% I believe that multiculturalism isn’t working in this country and the government knows it and is trying to cover it up. 100% our young girls are the sacrifice on the altar of multiculturalism, and it’s not just white girls, any westernised girl is seen as easy prey by these predators. Unfortunately the only way to protect young girls from predatory males is to encourage them to not speak to strange men and dress moderately because our culture is no longer compatible with a safe environment for young girls. I’ll emphasise “Encourage” because that is all we can actually do by law, encourage and advise.
Many victims of abuse do not see themselves as victims of abuse and will defend their abuser to the hilt. Just because you don’t understand does not mean it doesn’t happen. It is incredibly hard to help people who don’t want to be helped.
Thanks for your insights from the actual front line.
What a blessed relief to read something here that is actually anchored in reality.
If, as it appears, you work in this particularly messy and impossible arena, then I can only have respect for your intestinal fortitude and perseverance.
Buona fortuna.
I’ve been told about all these issues you have mentioned by a professional in the field who moved to adult services out of despair, and being unable to switch off from the horror of being powerless in the face of just these situations.
She said if the public ever found out the civil disorder would be catastrophic.
She also said there was a racial element, although in her experience it was Kurdish men living off their immoral earnings, rather than the rape gangs mentioned in the article
An old girl friend was social worker and tough as old boots. Her father had been a boxer and taught to box. When a boy damaged the care home she ran she went into into his room and threw all his possesions into the garden. She siad ” You damage my home , I damge your possessions “. Afterwards he behaved.
I think one of the first changes in the legislation that needs to be enacted is to limit the definition of CHILDREN to 12 years old. Then, at 13, they become ADOLESCENTS, up to age 19. Still subject to limitations and deserving of protection, but eliminating the ridiculous notions such as that the young people France sent to us under the label of ‘children’ were mostly fighting age male adolescents (who in their own countries had long been treated as adults and trained to handle weapons).
I will agree that the guidance ties our hands in many ways, although much of this is down to ensuring the young persons rights are protected. However, as someone who has given chase and followed a car that had picked up our young person and worked with the police to have the driver arrested and charged with child abduction. I do not appreciate care workers being termed “facilitator”. I do a thankless job. I have been assaulted and verbally abused for trying to enforce boundaries. I am paid minimum wage and treated with disrespect by others in the so called “multi agency” team because I’m simply a care worker. We are in a constant state of being understaffed because most people don’t want a job where you are abused regularly. Before you criticise care workers, perhaps you should try doing their job.
i might be a bit sensitive today, but I have just come off a triple shift, ie I came on shift on Saturday and have just returned home today!
Tens of thousands of officers and social workers saw the Home Office circular on consent for example – a gross distortion of UK law. How many did the right thing and blew the whistle? How many challenged superiors? How many went to the press? Very few. That leaves tens of thousand state employees sufficiently content with the idea a 10 year old can consent. There a none so blind as those who refuse to see how awful this is. And what’s worse is it continues with cases due in court this month from 2022. Nothing has changed except ever more of the UK is apparently far right.
It is awful. I know it’s awful but it is very similar to domestic abuse. They think they’re in love, they make excuses and they refuse to leave them. We cannot stop these girls without locking them up and then we’re criticised for locking them up. Come and join us on the frontlines and you will see!
But you won’t, because like all critics, you just want to sit in judgment of others.
Thank you for your informed comments which, from experience, I know to be accurate. And thank you for the work that you do.
Labeled ‘far-right’ by a far-left to whom even moderate leftists seem far-right.
That’s a different thing altogether.
How exactly do you propose to blow the whistle on the Home Office – who are you blowing it to? The press? Would they have been interested? Would their readers?
The guilty people are, firstly, those committing the crimes and, secondly, senior persons that either looked the other way or told junior staff to deal with it without giving them the means to do so. ie the people that are actually paid to produce policy, not those on minimum wage that work God knows how many hours to follow it.
You highlight the complexity of the issue and that there are good people trying to do their jobs properly in these services (such as many medical workers during the Scamdemic – either recognizing it for what it was or simply unwilling to force people to take treatment against their will).
Maybe reputations can be redeemed by getting together with like-minded people in your field and going massively public with the incriminating information that the authorities are trying to cover up – using social media perhaps, since the MSM is already bought and paid for and could suppress it..
It all sounds so Dickensian – the dark underbelly of Victorian England….
But we still had capital punishment and deportation back then ;o)
Human nature hasn’t changed since the nineteenth century/
In other words, Britain is, at its core, an institutionally anti-white society. The issue of racist rape gangs is a massive elephant in the room—impossible to ignore due to its sheer magnitude. Yet, even then, the ‘progressive’ establishment tries to convince people that it doesn’t exist.
The root problem is anti-white hatred, whether explicit, as seen in the actions of non-white racists who commit such heinous crimes, or implicit, in the form of ‘progressive’ policies implemented within institutions.
This scandal is of such a magnitude that it overshadows any other concerns about racism. White people simply can’t be racist in a country of Rotherham’s and Stockport’s. In a society where institutions adopt a blatantly ‘two-tiered’ ( anti-white ) approach to every societal issue.
To call this mass crime a ‘scandal’ is a misnomer, as is the term ‘grooming gangs’.
The endemic rape atrocity is a crime against humanity, as measured by the depth of its depravity, the extent of its cruelty and by the length of its endurance.
Racism is a cop out, an all too easy excuse for avoiding malicious truths. Ami g those truths is who the perpetrators of these atrocities are. It’s like the US – a disproportionate number of blacks are in jail because a disproportionate number of blacks commit crimes. There’s no racism; there is behavior.
Racism stops being a tool when sniveling politicians and other authority figures stop giving it leverage. It’s not racist to say who the rapists are, it’s factual.
Aside: In New York City, “stop-and-frisk” (the same thing as stop-and-search) worked. And, yes, non-white people were disproportionately subjected to stop-and-frisk. Why? Because non-white people–then and now–commit violent crime at disproportionately high rates. That would be putting it mildly.
Year after year, the FBI statistics reveal the same patterns. For example, the black population may comprise about 13% of the population–about 1 in 8 people–but it accounts for about 50% of the victims of homicide as well as about 50% of the perpetrators of homicide.
And, let’s get real, almost all of that homicide is concentrated on younger, black men. So, we’re talking about half of all murders and murderers concentrated on one-sixteenth of the population. Hmm …
You’re undermining the claims of others above that we’re not obsessed with race here but just protecting women and girls.
As the author says being called racist in the police ends your career. Unsurprisingly certain crimes by certain groups get ignored. Imagine the outcry if it had been white males raping underage Asian girls . Would Starmer call objecting to that “ far right” ?
How we treat our children and the poorest members of our society is the true measure of a country. England is a shithole, pure and simple. For the authorities to allow this to happen for political gain or even social objectives is beyond the pale and is indicative of an amoral and immoral ruling class that cares more about their careers than their own people, especially vulnerable girls. For this to occur over 25 years just adds to England’s personna as probably the biggest shithole country in the West.
For the English reading this, grow some courage and demand a full accounting of who, what, why, where, and how and send these sleazebags to prison. Your response to this tragedy will determine who you really are a country and a people.
The ‘Government’ are running scared of an enquiry into the rape gangs principally because the head boy, in spite of pointing at the Tories, was a prime mover whilst head of the CPS in deciding to cover up the massive scale and depravity of these crimes. Starmer is trying to discredit, or lock up, his many detractors as his record is coming home to roost. Blair is at the heart of much of the disruption to British life, his placemen and women are well embedded into every institution of national life and until a time comes when they can be expunged everything else is just tinkering with ephemera.
Multiculturalism worked when it was mostly intellectual, middle class people, or tight communities of mostly law abiding people prepared to respect our laws (eg Jews).
It doesn’t work for the hordes coming now who are mainly impoverished, uneducated and bigoted. Sorry to say this but it’s a fact.
There must be a degree to which the existence of these rape gangs was rooted in their culture. This throws up an interesting question of how acknowledging that is possible to a person who believes all cultures to be equally valid.
So many words… Simply, if the far Left did not control so many of our cultural institutions and was not self hating, this never would have been allowed to go on… It’s Woke and Woke induced social conformity…
These ideas are not far left in any currently meaningful sense. None of the people who hold them will be supporting wealth redistribution any time soon. They are the mainstream ideas of the posh folks on the hill – and if you want to get on you had better start emulating them.
Culturally far Left they mean
I understand that.
But these ideas are now so unanchored in the traditional far left, and so much part and parcel of elite ideology that the term “far left” sounds inappropriate. These are not the views expressed in secret rooms in the back of a pub somewhere: they are the taken for granted opinions of the great and the good expressed at posh dinner parties.
And their adoption coincides with increasing inequality and contempt for those who are not well off. It’s certainly not some sort of socialism by stealth.
Good points. Perhaps left and right have become meaningless and politics has come down to good governance (geared to the long-term benefit of the population as a whole) versus poor governance (geared to economic exploitation for the purpose of enriching a class that considers itself intellectually and socially superior to all the rest – effectively expendable!
This has been going on since the 1990s, after Thatcher and Reagan gave the ok for the fightback against trade union greed and exploitation, but not stopping after balance had been restored, as so many were enamoured of being Masters of the Universe and emboldened by the collapse of the USSR.
I think the best term is ‘bourgeois left’. They are a blight on humanity.
Not just the police.
We all remember the BBC and Channel 4 coverage of the trials where 20 men at a time would be charged with child abuse.
Do you remember that coverage?
I don’t….
I do
At the very heart of the mass rape scandal is racism , clearly the only kind permitted and openly indulged in without fear of consequences: anti- white working class racism.
The language contained in the evidence proves the pure racial hatred that these men had for their victims and yet not one of them, as far as I know, was also charged with racial hatred. The appalling coverage from the BBC etc reflects that barely concealed contempt that was and continues to be shared by the police and many others not just the vile perpetrators. That is what is so painful to many, the double standard and the flagrant injustice. That pain is what animated the angry reaction that flared into rioting after the vicious slaughter of three young children in Southport, when people were seemingly deliberately kept in an information vacuum and taunted by the language used in the early reporting. It was as if they wanted to wind them up as much as possible, and Starmer appeared to relish coming down hard in a most draconian manner not only on those caught rioting but on bystanders and people who posted nasty things online. Suddenly, swift and harsh justice was available. He displayed not a shred of understanding.
Meanwhile, we have had weekly anti-Zionism marches in London, gently policed and all kinds of inflammatory language excused for fear of triggering riots amongst that particular group.
Horrible as it is, at least now the sheer depth of the betrayal of the British people by their political leaders and establishment has been made profoundly and depressingly clear.
The BBC is a malign influence in the UK national life.
What a sharp fall, from the world’s most respected source of news, information and entertainment.
Brazil’s once dominant TV Globo was also a highly respected organization with a reputation for quality programming and a roster of talented stars. Now it is reduced to being the propaganda arm of the PT.
It’s the same ambush tactics used on 2022/01/06 in Washington and 2023/01/08 in Brasília. Use propaganda to whip up a storm. Lure people into a mass to demonstrate their revulsion, use paid lackeys to start trouble, violence, looting and vandalism – then pull them out and arrest bystanders en masse, blaming everything on the MSM labeled ‘far-right’. In Brasilia, none of the perpetrators was arrested, but large numbers of innocent bystanders were thrown in jail – some for up to 17 years – without defence against the charge of attempting to stage a coup d’etat.
All one elderly woman did was clutch her rosary and Bible and pray. One guy was refused medical treatment and died in custody. Another just happened to be passing the location at the time. Another simply wrote in lipstick on the statue in front of the Supreme Court (citing the words of one of the STF ministers after they had stolen the election for Lula). Meanwhile, the guy who destroyed a historically valuable clock and prominently wore a Bolsonaro T-shirt was later identified by CCTV as a member of the MST – Lula’s armed rural military wing. After that, the CCTV recordings disappeared and Lula’s Justice Minister said they had been erased. Not even an ‘accidental’ apology, but deliberately, to prevent identification of the real perpetrators of the crimes innocent people were being tried for.
Beware, under 2TS, the UK is heading in the same direction. The USA is fighting back and now the Brits must do the same!
Thanks for your reply. What is happening in Brazil is very disturbing. Here we seem to be inexorably sliding into a de facto fascist police state and it appears to be happening in many countries across the west. It is never the good guys that seek to stop protests and silence opposing views. This quote is very apposite:
“The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.”― Albert Camus
Many unwittingly serve tyranny by thinking they are doing the “right” thing. Stalin had a name for them.
Ms Pollock, chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust, observes that there have been crimes against humanity since 1945.
One such crime being the mass rape of German women and girls from 8 to 80 by Soviet soldiers in 1945. Suffering and an atavistic form of conquest that was ignored in Britain at the time.
Should the organised rape of women and girls the length and breadth of civilised Britain be treated as such a crime? Should there be memorable education in schools about such? When does a crime against humanity become merely ‘failure to report (abuse of children)’?
I am afraid such educating would be strongly resisted by our captured educational establishment that can only bear to focus on the evils and misdemeanours of white people, the British Empire etc. This is made manifestly clear in the way the subject of slavery is taught.
I believe under Labour there are plans to double down on this condemnation of British history.
It is really all quite simple. The ‘anti-racist’ grifters together with the diversity, equity and inclusion idiots have won. Every organisation from national government departments to local government departments; from social services to the police – all are in thrall to, and desperate to avoid being labelled as racist by, the illiberal, left-leaning elites which dominate every aspect of our benighted society and its institutions.
Thousands of hapless, and helpless, young girls up and down the country have been sacrificed on the altar of diversity and inclusion – I omitted equity here because there is nothing remotely equitable about what has been allowed to happen to these countless young girls – and now we can only seethe in anger and frustration as we listen to Sir Kier f**king Starmer inform us all that calls for a national public inquiry into the grooming gang scandal are inspired by the ‘far-right’.
How can this be happening in my homeland?
I care not a jot about the skin colour or ethnicity of the perpeptrators of these vile abuses – though I want them all to be tried in a court of law and, if convicted, to be punished to the full extent of the law. No, what I want to see is all those individuals who have cravenly turned the other way rather than confront the evil before them to be held to account, punished, dismissed from their jobs and to lose any pension rights they may have accrued. And then for their photographs and names to be plastered across the front pages of every newspaper in the country every day for a month.
Then, and only then, will those poor, abandoned girls be seen to have had some measure of justice meted out on their behalf to all of those sick individuals, both perpetrators and facilitators, who abused them.
Well done Unherd. You’re done it again.
Ignore every accusation Musk made and is making. Deflect from the politics. No mention of Starmer.
Why is Unherd an unconditional Starmer supporter?
I appreciate how thorough your piece is; it’s educational and motivating! Supreme Jordan Hoodie
Identity Politics wrote large – thick young dysfunctional white girls at the very bottom of the rung are expendable at the alter of multiculturalism.
What evidence do you have that these girls are thick or dysfunctional or the bottom of the rung?
They might be intelligent, but that isn’t how they were treated.
Perceived as.
England is no more. Vale.
I have known the explanation provided in this article for a long time and it still offends my intellect. The police’s principal job since millennia is maintaining law and order; arresting criminals including rapists and torturers (regardless of ethnicity) is their social purpose. How does an ideology like anti-racism override that job description? Even if anti-racism is baked into the law and programmed into the police mindset, as the article states, It is still a gross failure to do one’s job if a police officer doesn’t arrest a known perpetrator just because of his skin-color; how did the fear of being accused of racism (and hence not being promoted) trump fear of dismissal or even worse, fear of being lynched by groups of outraged parents (and I don’t see how not arresting the known perps avoids the risk of “social disorder” unless the parents were all AWOL). If, as the author states the police force consists of rank cowards, why didn’t their cowardice include their risk of dismissal or risk of being lynched? What’s so bad about being accused of racism anyway; it’s just a paper accusation which normally can be rebutted quite easily particularly after having obtained a conviction or a confession of 10,000+ perpetrators. Fear of racism cannot play any role in the face of overwhelming factual evidence that a tsunami of rape and torture had taken place; facts don’t care about emotions. None of the anti-racism rules and ideological training sessions to which the police have been subject can adequately explain this nationwide failure to fulfill one’s basic duties as a police officer.
There isn’t an ideology called ‘anti-racism’ in play there. As the veteran explains is a out maintaining order and respect for the law as much as practically possible.
“… the politicisation of policing, and its role in supporting the [MANDATED] state-mandated policy of multiculturalism.”
What a profoundly, though unsurprising, insight into the Woke management of our police services.
I have just listened to a 1:00pm BBC Radio4 report on the rape gang abomination. An interviewee was given substantial air time to minimise this evil by claiming it represented a mere 3% of overall child rape/abuse in the UK, which he asserted is mainly perpetrated in the ‘familial’ (i.e. family – to put it less grandiosely) context! The BBC is seeking to deflect attention away from the grim racial dimension to what amounts to an endemic national atrocity of huge proportions over decades and ongoing.
In case anyone may be persuaded by the BBC and other parties trying to minimise the sheer depravity and horror of what has been going on and which has not been fully revealed, and which has now been surfaced for the general public by Elon Musk’s actions, here is a verbatim extract from the judge’s sentencing remarks in the central criminal court on 27 June 2013, which is readily available in full on the internet – https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/JCO/Documents/Judgments/sentencing-remarks-r-v-dogar-others.pdf):
Very many heads should roll for this horrendous, organised depravity; and very many rapists of dual or foreign nationality who are or will be convicted of these vile crimes should be summarily deported upon completion of prison sentences, with zero regard for their human rights. We don’t want them in our midst.
The Beeb report was right. The racial and religious dimension of such abuse is relatively insignificant to all except those who want to focus on it.
This is nonsense too. The difference between western abusers of children and these Pakistani gangs is that the latter feel themselves morally justified in what they do.
Islam teaches that infidel females are free for the taking, what’s the problem?
Women’s rights are consistently ignored to address more men’s rights, even if they’re depraved and criminal. It’s sickening. May every person who stood by and let that happen rot before our eyes.
Very interesting piece, confirming what many knew or suspected
I’ll share it as widely as I can, but it really should be read out in parliament, be mandatory reading in all sixth form classes, be published in every newspaper and given full coverage on TV and radio
It’s not anonymous, he’s there to take questions, so everyone should get to read this.
Thanks for writing it.
The love of money is the root of all evil. Councillors can earn up to about £20k tax free and many Labour MPs earn more money than if they left the job.
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
A fish rots from the head.
All organisations become bureaucratic oligarchies run forthe benefit of those who control them.
Moral corruption leads to moral cowardice which leads to physical cowardice. Zeus said ” humans will need gods as long as they are cowardly, venal and lazy “.
Newman did his best to remove corruption from the Met in the 1970s. The Stephen Lawrence murder investigation was obviously disaster. There were two explanations, corruption by a detective sergeant who had links to the Father of one the boys who was well known criminal or racism. The criminal gangs of SE London were also often racist/fascist.
After Newman demonstrated corruption in the Met they could not afford another corruption scandal so they chose racism as the reason for the failure to prosecute Lawrence’s murderers .
The South East Regional Crime Squad was closed down for corruption after the murder. A private detective was murdered in 1987 in Sydenham was investigating corruption in the Met.
Organised crime has evolved from Labour run areas: Richardson- South London, Krays- East End; Hunt- East End; Adams- Islington; Curtis Warren Liverpool. These areas contain many members of the Labour Party, councillors and MPs yet they knew nothing about crime in their area, yet many would have gone to school with and their wives associated with members of the criminal gang.
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The Met chose to admit to racism. This played into the hands of the Trotskyists such as Militant Tendency, Socialist Workers Party, Socialist Alliance which dominated many white collar unions and localgovernment.
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The scholarly Marxism of Christopher Hill has not had much impact on the UK but Trotskyism has- Blair, C Hitchens, Mandelson, Starmer etc. Trotskyism/ Marxism as M Muggeridge said is an urban religion for people with a grudge against their fellow man and civilisation. I would add self hatred,mresentment , and bitterness because they are morally corrupt, cowardly and physically cowardly and spiteful to wards those who are morally and physically courageous. Hence they destroy any history showing Britain’s moral mand physical courage The Police has a problem. It fails to recognise Trotsyism and it lacks enough members who have the moral and physical courage of officers of the Armed forces who are officers and gentlemen/ladies.
A Special Forces officer seconded to the Met said to me “ If I am dealing the crème de la creme , God knows what the dregs of the county forces like ? The Police in occupied Europe worked with the Nazis
arresting Jews and resistant fighters.
The love of money is the root of all evil. Councillors can earn up to about £20k tax free and many Labour MPs earn more mony than if they left the job.
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
A fish rots from the head.
All organisations become bureaucratic oligarchies run for the benefit of those who control them.
Moral corruption leads to moral cowarduce which leads to physical cowardice. Zeus said ” humans will need gods as long as they are cowardly, venal and lazy “.
The failureb of the Lawrence murder investigation was due to corruption, most likely the detective sergeant who was friendly with one of the fathers of the murderers . After Newman demonstarting corruption in the Met they could not afford another corruption scandal so they chose racism as the reason for the failure to prosecute Lawrences murderes .
The South East Regional Crime Squad was closed down fro corruption after the murder. A private detectived was murdered in 1987 in Sydenham was was investigating corruption in the Met.
Organised crime has evolved from Labour run areas: Richardson- South London, Krays- East End; Hunt- East End; Adams- Islington; Curtis Warren Liverpool. These areas contain many members of the Labour Party, councillors and MPs yet they knew nothing about crime in their area, yet many would have gone to school with and their wives associated with members of the criminal gang.
Newman did his best to remove corruption from the Met in the 1970s. The Stephen Lawrence murder investigation was obviously disaster. There were two explanations, corruption by a detective sergeant who had links to the Father of on a of the boys who was well known criminal or racism. The criminal gangs of SE London were also often racist/fascist. The South East Regional crime squad crime squad was closed down
BBC NEWS | Programmes | Panorama | Archive | The Bent Cop December 3 2000
Dream Deferred | Two gangs’ racist rivalry lay behind Stephen Lawrence murder (Part 2)
The Met chose to admit to racism. This played into the hands of the Trotskyists such as Militant Tendency, Socialist Workers Party, Socialist Alliance which dominated many white collar unions and local government.
Category:Trotskyist organisations in the United Kingdom – Wikipedia
The scholarly Marxism of Christopher Hill has not had much impact on the UK but Trotskyism has- Blair, C Hitchens, Mandelson, Starmer etc. Trotskyism as M Muggeridge said is an urban religion for people with a grudge against their fellow man and civilisation. I would add self hatred, resentment , and bitterness because they are morally corrupt, cowardly and physically cowardly and spiteful to wards those who are morally and physically courageous. Hence they destroy any history showing Britain’s moral and physical courage
The Police has a problem. It fails to recognise Trotsyism and it lacks enough members who have the moral and physical courage of officers of the Armed forces who are officers and gentlemen/ladies.
A Special Forces officer seconded to the Met said to me “ If I am dealing the crème de la creme , God knows what the dregs of the county forces like ?
The Police in occupied Europe worked with the Nazis arresting Jews and resistant fighters.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
“Racism” is merely a word. A word with about as much impact these days as “balloon”.
If there were gangs of Pakistani bank robbers would the police take a sensitive approach so as not to inflame racial tensions. Of course not. Money is involved not young girls.